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Lectures on Secret Doctrine - 2
Hierarchy of Devas & Prajapatis

Dr. K. Parvathi Kumar

Dhanishta
Dr. K. Parvathi Kumar
Lectures on Secret Doctrine - 2
Hierarchy of Devas & Prajapatis

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 Hierarchy of Devas

Since every one of us studies one book or the

other from the esoteric standpoint to widen our
comprehension, it is thought fit to give some
information about the categories of Devas as they exist.
Only then, we can understand the general order of the
Cosmogenesis and also the general order of the
Anthropogenesis. How these Devas are responsible for
the formation of the creation and also for the
formation of man is to be understood. We keep hearing
so many names of the Devas from time to time.
Of course, what we discuss now is not an
exhaustive description but it gives a general idea, so
that we can see with-in, the framework of what is the
Hierarchy of these Devas.
To start with, there are those we know as the
Gandharvas.

1. Gandharvas
The English term can be takes as the musical
notes before creation. They exist even before the
creation. They are like the waves and are symbolically

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presented by the sign of Aquarius. They move in waves.
From that state to the state of music that we know, to
the music of the soul, the Gandharvas preside over.
They are the ones who conduct the song of breath in
manifestation, but they are beyond creation. That is
the state in which the Lord is. It is the absolute state.
The Gandharvas can be referred to as God Absolute.
There are innumerable waves in space. When a
wave becomes potential for creation, it becomes an
egg. That is how nature emerges. Thereafter there are
the Devas that are born in the egg. This is what we call
the cosmic egg. In Sanskrit, it is called Brahmanda.
Within that Anda or egg, the Devas exist potentially. It
is not yet light, nothing is yet manifest.
The Gandharvas are beyond. Even if they are in
creation, they are untouched by creation. They are
above and beyond. I will try to describe these Devas
with their names for your comprehension. Later you
can contemplate upon them, so that slowly they
become a reality for you.
The Gandharvas are like musical notes. They
are the ones who crossed the ultimate bliss. The bliss of
existence at any level is due to these Gandharvas. They
can be called the blissful Devas. Bliss cannot be
defined. Happiness relates to the senses and the body.
Joy relates to the Soul. Bliss is a state where the Soul

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merges into the universal soul and ceases to be of
individual existence. Such is the bliss. That is what we
say in the prayer as:
“Master, please let us receive the influx of Thy
Plenty of Prana into our system, so that we may
transcend disease, decay and death, realize the highest
truth, the pure love and the bliss of existence”.
It means that this bliss of existence is attuned to
the universal Soul, by which the individual Soul ceases
to be. Only when we come back from that bliss, we will
know that we were in it. That is the final grace that the
Lord can shower on us. That bliss is beyond any
definition. Even the greatest initiates crave for that
bliss through the grace of the Lord. It is received only
by grace and cannot be attained. That grace that
showers the bliss, is the presence of these Gandharvas.
Once again, please remember, they are beyond
time, beyond space, and beyond all measures. The Veda
recognizes four chief Gandharvas:

1a) Vena
He is the one who causes a passage from
seeming nothingness to apparent something. He is
mentioned in the caption Aquarius of the book
“Spiritual Astrology”. The energy of Aquarius is a state
of not-untrue-be-ness. It is a double negative: “not

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untrue be-ness”. It is a state where ‘it is’ and ‘is not’ at
the same time. It means, from seeming nothingness to
apparent something, it is the passage. This passage is
presided over by the Aswins who come down as Mitra
and Varuna, as Vasishta and Agastya, as Neptune and
Uranus, as the Himalayan Hierarchy and the Blue
Mountain Hierarchy and also as the Great Bear and
Sirius. That is the division of the spirit and matter.
In us Vena is the passage between the crown
and Ajna. That passage is presided over by Vena. Just by
saying “Higher bridge beginning”, this Deva is
awakened. Higher bridge is the final state. The other
bridge is from brow to Ajna. When there is a higher
bridge, there has to be a lower bridge! For the human,
the lower bridge is from brow centre to the heart
centre. But then we are mostly in solar plexus. When
our life is a self-serving life, i. e., serving oneself all the
time, then we are in solar plexus. So, from solar plexus
to heart there is one more bridge.
Aspirants are those who try to climb that
bridge, and disciples climb the bridge from the heart to
the brow and reach Ajna. Initiates go further from Ajna
to Sahasrara.

1b) Soma
He is what is called the nectar of creation, the

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drink of immortality, Amrita. It is a secretion from
seeming nothingness into apparent something which
gives the experience of bliss, joy and happiness. If he
does not exist, there is no bliss, joy and happiness in
creation. Very frequently you find these names, when
you read “Secret Doctrine” or some of them in the
books of Bailey. You should know that it is a
Gandharva.
Soma is already male-female. He is the basis for
male-female. Soma is known as Sa + Uma. Sa Uma
means: with Uma – means, ‘with nature’. Uma means
nature. THAT has become He and She. In Hindu
mythology the same word is also used for Moon. Moon
is also called Soma. Monday is Soma day. In the Vedic
system it is expressed as Soma-Vara (Vara = day), the
day of the Moon. Soma has its own bliss, joy, happiness
and excitement.
For emotional people, full moon is crazy. For
normal people who live with mind and senses, full
moon is full of happiness. For those who know (the
disciples), full moon is joy. But for high initiates, full
moon gives the touch of the bliss. Since Moon is a
vehicle of Soma, it is also called Soma. He is the bliss,
meaning: the bliss of the Gandharvas is brought down
by Soma.

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1c) Viswa Vasu
He is the one who causes be-ness in creation.
Vasu means to be. Viswa means universal. So, it is
universal be-ness which comes as individual be-ness.
This is one gandharva, the be-ness in creation.
Anything is in its be-ness: the mosquito, the ant – all
are in state of ‘be-ness’. The mountain has its be-ness,
and the river has its be-ness too!

1d) Chitra Ratha

Ratha means chariot. In creation all forms are
said to be chariots, because the beings move in it. The
being moves with a vehicle. That vehicle is called
Ratha. Originally it is called chariot, because in those
days, there were chariots. Anything through which a
being moves, is a vehicle. You cannot imagine all the
varieties of vehicles. It is a wonder how many vehicles
are there from the cosmic plane to the physical plane,
and the Gandharva presides over that. That is why he is
called chariot or vehicle of wonder. From the crab to
the snake, to scorpion, to ant, to mosquito – these are
varieties of vehicles. You cannot imagine how many
vehicles are there. It is a wonder!
These are the four Gandharvas whom we
should think of. They are the ones in creation who
become the Kumaras. In their original state, the four

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Kumaras are the four Gandharvas. That is why they
remain in creation as the four-fold existence. Just relate
this to our own situation. From out of sleep to
awakening in the morning, the one becomes two. In
sleep the awakening is merged in be-ness. When we are
at sleep, we do not know that we are sleeping.
Awakening is merged into THAT which is called
existence. So, there is a passage through which you
awaken. That passage is Vena.
Once you awaken, you are already two -
awareness and existence. Now existence is with
awareness. That is why it is called Sa+Uma, with Uma.
Existence is with awareness, as you wake up and your
state of awareness is already a secondary state. Then
you feel ‘I AM’. In deep sleep you do not feel ‘I AM’,
because the knowledge of ‘I AM’ is in the awakened
state. These four aspects are very important. That is
why I frequently speak of them. We know them only to
forget the next moment!
Chitra means peculiar, wonderful. To each
one, his vehicle is wonderful. In fact, it is full of
wonders. These are the four avenues in which the be-
ness is. Beyond creation, these are the names for them,
as given in the Veda. More than the names, we should
know their function. Knowing the name and not
knowing the function is what we do in many ways! If

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we know the function, even if we do not know the
name, it is okay. Here the names are in Sanskrit, but the
function is universal. If we know a person by his name,
but do not know him as such, it does not help! Just
knowing the name is not enough. That is why we
should go into the functional aspect of the Devas as
they exist in various planes. It is in this context that we
understand that the Gandharvas, the musical notes
beyond the creation. They are the means of bliss at all
the four levels. Bliss at body level, bliss at the level of
senses, bliss at the level of mind or buddhi, bliss at the
level of the soul, and the bliss beyond the individual
soul.
This bliss is Gandharvas. They are the highest
energies to be sought. The whole effort of every soul is
to be happy. Soul is defined in the Veda as the seeker of
happiness, joy and bliss. The inner desire is to seek bliss
in its variety. People who move in the lake, people who
go up to the peak, people visiting places – what are they
seeking? Happiness! People seek happiness through
senses in the outer world. People seek happiness at the
mental plane through thinking. People seek happiness
at the buddhic plane.
We give different names to these gradations of
happiness. That happiness is due to the Gandharvas.
They exist on the top of the head, and they descend.

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That is what we should know about the Gandharvas.
These are the Gandharvas who come down as the four
Kumaras through the matter and spirit.
I am speaking about the situation before the
circle with the central point. Thereafter it becomes a
circle with the central point and then the triangle and
through the triangle we have the four-fold existence.
The Gandharvas come down as the Kumaras through
the creator. Just because they came through the creator,
the creator thought that they were his sons and said,
“You should participate in my work.” The Kumaras
smiled. Through their smile they gave the message,
“We don't participate. O, Father, you do not know
anything.” When the sons, tell the father, “You don't
know anything”, it's a bit out of normal, but it can
happen. If the son who is born to you is of greater
awareness than you, he will not say, “You don't know”,
but he will smile. That smile gives enough message.
These four Kumaras were far greater in
awareness than the father from whom they came
through. Master DK speaks about them in the
beginning of “Treatise on Cosmic Fire”. He calls them
Agnishvattas. Agnishvatta means: The one who has put
off the fire for procreation. They do not participate to
create, but they will help the creation. These four
brothers of the highest order came down into creation

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to assist the creator. But they are not there to procreate
or make further creation. The creator did not know
their stature and their function and why they were
present. The creator, the 1st Logos, had many
problems during the course of creation. Ultimately, he
succeeded and fulfilled the creation in creating man.
The work of the 1st Logos is to create. When man
appeared in creation, the prophecy that there shall be a
creation was fulfilled. But then to maintain the
creation, another Logos is at work. So, the creation is
now in the state of maintenance. That is why, it is called
2nd systemic existence. When the creation was
completely made up to the dense physical and man has
developed a body of flesh and blood, then it is
complete. Now it has to evolve. That is the work of the
2nd Logos.
These four Kumaras used to work for the 1st
Logos and are now working for the 2nd Logos, and will
work for the 3rd Logos also. They are the helpers to the
Logoi. They are beyond creation and are also in
creation. These are the ones whom we frequently find
in the Puranas. They do not participate in creation, but
they keep helping at every level. The lower three of
them are helping in the planetary, solar and cosmic
evolution, and the first one is beyond the cosmic,
because he is the passage from supra cosmic to cosmic.

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That is why they become the foremost or the most high
in the Hierarchy. We have a Hierarchy at the cosmic
plane – the 2nd Kumara; at the solar plane – the 3rd
Kumara; at the planetary plane – the 4th Kumara. The
1st Kumara is the passage from nothingness to
something. I tell you this; because I have the fond hope
that you will one day read “Treatise on Cosmic Fire”
and “Secret Doctrine”! Not that you read away, but you
should study!
We then have the Seven Seers whom the book
“Treatise on Cosmic Fire” mentions as Barhishads.
They are willing to cooperate with the creator to
procreate. At that plane, procreation is not what we
know today on the physical plane. There is no act of sex
as such. Act of sex only belongs to the physical level,
where there are bodies of flesh and blood. In the
immediate next level, there is no sex. There is no
seeking for flesh. The Barhishads are the ones who
allowed beings to come through them. They also play
like the creator. Through them, the seven races came,
and from each race, again seven races emerged. That is
how you have so many root races, and sub root-races.
They relate to the seven centres of our body. For
example, when you read, you should only think that all
relating to the creation of the intelligences is relating to
Sahasrara. That is why they are all called red root-race.

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Please remember, unless you relate the wisdom to you,
you cannot understand the cosmology. In “Secret
Doctrine” you find that the red people disappeared and
the relating to the creation of the intelligences is
relating to Sahasrara. That is why they are all called red
root -race.
In “Secret Doctrine” you find that the red
people disappeared and the blue people also
disappeared. All red races came through the original
cosmic fire. Then at Ajna there are the blue races, and
then will come the yellow races. Like that, you have to
first see what is written there, and how it is this relevant
to us in my seven layers. Unless you learn this
technique, you can never understand the wisdom. It
helps if you keep a placard in your study room:
1st sentence: God made man in his own image and
likeness.
2nd sentence: God is also in my image.
3rd sentence: Let me find God and his Hierarchy of
Devas in me .
4th sentence: Let me link up to the Devas and God in
me through contemplation.
Do you know, what happens ultimately?
Slowly you cease to be and God seems to be. This is
called the Science of Correspondence, through which
you gain your original identity and lose the duplicate

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identity. We are all duplicated. That is why, in the first
meditation in “Spiritual Psychology” you find, “ There
is only one copy in existence, and I am copied from the
parent manuscript”. If you find something in the copy,
it will also be there in the original.
Madam Blavatsky very nicely writes: “Every
duplicate is a proof of the original.” If there is a
duplicate, it is a duplicate to some original. Every fake
note proves the original note. Like that, we are all
duplicates of the One, and hence, we have to see in the
duplicate, the cosmology. Then the duplicate is
dissolved and the original is retained. So, the creation is
made in a precise order and all is arranged in the
human being according to an order.

Devas
After the Gandharvas we come to another
category of Devas in whom there is again a sub-
category. In that we have Adityas – 12 in number,tThe
Devas of consciousness; Rudras – 11 in number, the
Devas of force; and Vasus – 8 in number, the Devas of
matter. These are 31 – plus the Aswins, of which I spoke
of along with Gandharvas. Aswins are beyond. They are
‘not untrue’ beings. If you add up all these numbers,
the number is 33. 33 is a magnificent number. In
Masonry the one who reaches the highest state of

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illumination is called “the illustrious brother 33”. In
him, he would have realized through Masonry all these
Devas. That is how there are 33 categories of Devas who
have their many, many sub-categories.

2a) Adityas
The energy of the Adityas is given to us through
the twelve sun signs. They are said to be born to Aditi.
Aditi is the light beyond darkness. That is what we say
in Purusha Suktam: Adityá Varnam Tamásah Parástat –
which is the light beyond darkness. Since it is a light
beyond darkness, it is not a visible light. It is an
invisible light. It is visible only to those who have Ajna
open. What we see as light is a far subsequent
manifestation. This light is the light of awareness. It is
not visible as light. That is Aditya. It is there, but it
cannot be seen, unless one can see through darkness of
ignorance. Through the visible light the invisible
awareness touches us. Be it Taurus, Gemini, Cancer,
Leo – you find the same sun-ray. But what it brings to
you is different from month to month. It can be seen,
only if you have an occult perception. Gemini sun-ray
has a different impact, and likewise all the 12 sun signs
have different energies. That energy cannot be seen.
That is why it is called the light beyond darkness. Aditi
is the light beyond darkness. After that light, there is

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darkness, and through that darkness again that light
comes down. In the beginning it was darkness. That is
how the Testament begins. But the Veda speaks of a
light beyond darkness. In Purusha Suktam we say two
times: “Vedahámetám Purúsham Mahantam Adityá
Varnam Tamásah Parastat” It means: We know the
cosmic person whose light is beyond darkness and
whose light is Aditya – Aditya Varnam Tamásah Parastat
– beyond Tamas – beyond darkness.
The Adityas are the light of awareness with 12
qualities of which Vishnu is the awareness as
permeation. In “Bhagavad Gita”, it is said: “Among
Adityas I am fully present as Vishnu.” Vishnu, the four
armed Cosmic Person, represents the Cosmic Christ
whom we call Christus in some other system. The four
armed one is there in every mythology. He is the
permeating principle. The beauty of Vishnu is he is the
synthesis of the four Kumaras. That means, he also
existed beyond creation with a different name. It is the
synthesis beyond creation manifesting as synthesis in
creation just like the four Gandharvas beyond creation.
They are present in the creation as the four Kumaras.
Vishnu, the synthesis beyond creation, is the synthesis
in creation. It is whom all other mythologies refer to as
the 2nd Logos. This is one aspect. He also belongs to
that category of Gandharvas who has come down to

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help the creation, to give stability to it, and to give
equilibrium to it.

2b) Rudras
The Devas of Vibration are known as Rudras
are 11 in number. They disturb the light beyond
darkness and also disturb darkness and bring things
down. They are born to destroy either way! They
destroy the unity for diversity, and they can once again
destroy diversity to get back unity. It is like, we destroy
the mountain into stones and build houses, and we
again destroy the buildings. So, to travel from one state
to the other, they are important. That is why they are
considered to be 1st ray.
Siva, the 1st Logos, presides over them. If you
want to destroy the impurities in you, invoke them. If
you aim at a destruction and invoke them, they do it
for you. If there is a conflict in the group, you can
destroy the conflict or you can also destroy the group –
the means to accomplish this is the same. It is like, with
a knife, you can cut a throat, and you can cut a
vegetable. That is the power of the Rudras. Rudras are
the ones who cause the fission. They create the atoms at
the cosmic plane. That is where the souls emerge.
Individual units, atoms, at the cosmic plane, are
formed due to the vibratory effect of the Rudras.

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 Rudra means, the one who roars. That roar is a
sound. That sound disturbs the light. So, the light was
disturbed by the sound to form into atoms. The Rudras
externalize the light beyond darkness. They make it
manifest. For externalization also, Rudras are
important. The sound which is passing through the
wires is externalized through Rudras for listening.
There is the inaudible sound as OM, from inaudibility
to audibility, from the voice of silence to the voice of
speech. The silence transform into speech in us at the
throat. That is where the Rudra is. He is called Sankara.
There is a constellation in Gemini called
Ardhra. That is a Rudra constellation. It has to be in
Gemini, because the throat is the centre, where from
invisibility to visibility, and intelligences are brought.
That means invisible intelligences are externalized into
visibility. That is why the humanity is initiated in the
month of Gemini, because Aries and Taurus build up
the invisible energies, and they are expressed out and
externalized in Gemini. Pentecost is in Gemini, the
descent of the fiery tongues is in Gemini, May Call is in
Gemini, initiation of humanity is in Gemini. That is
why Gemini is seen as the grand avenue of expression.
In Aries and Taurus we get impressed. In Gemini we
express, and in Cancer we synthesize. Like that, every
sign conducts its own work.

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The different functions of the Rudras are -

1st to 5th Rudra – The five sensations They do

not function, if there is no Rudra. That is why in the
initial stages of life, the children are advised to work
with Rudras. The five senses will be in order. Their
respiration will be in order, their movements will be in
order. They have good pulsation. They would have
good electrical functioning, and they have good
illumination and a good warmth in the body. When
the Rudras are functioning well in you, the light of the
Adityas manifests. How can we bring the kingdom of
God upon Earth? Only through Rudras! That is why in
the morning we are play Rudra Suktam regularly. If you
regularly listen to Rudra Suktam, and if you can also
chant, your whole body is put to an order, because the
Lords of Vibration reset the whole system in us. Seeing
this purpose, the Vedic seers have given Rudra Suktam.
These are the things that become relevant to us, when
we get into the realms of sound as a key for
transformation.

6th Rudra – Expansion and contraction,

centripetal and centrifugal functioning in creation,
inhalation and exhalation These are the two principles
of the Law of Alternation. Light expands, and

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contracts. That is how we have the longest days and the
shortest day. We also grow and then again thin down.
As we age , we look like a squeezed orange! First the
orange is built, and then it is squeezed. Cosmetics
cannot prevent Rudras! It is only our illusion. When
Rudras decide to contract, your expenditure on
cosmetics is just a waste!

7th Rudra – Displacement, and movement.

The Mayans, the Cyclopes, the initiates of ancient
India and Greece, were able to move huge blocks of
stone through air. If you go to Greece, you find huge
blocks of rocks which do not seem to have come from
the local area. They were lifted and transported. In
“Ramayana” you find Hanuman just lifting a
mountain with his hand and flying with it, when that
mountain was in demand. How is it possible?
Hanuman himself is a Rudra. So, Rudras can displace,
can replace, can mutate, can change, can transport.
That is why we move from place to place, from our
room to the prayer hall, from the prayer hall to the
dining hall – these movements are not possible without
Rudras. When the Rudra is not functioning in us,
someone has to carry us. Then the Rudra is functioning
in the people who carry us.

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 8th Rudra – Pulsation

9th Rudra – The electric fire, the electrical

functioning in us, like flash of ideas, thoughts.

10th Rudra – The solar fire as illumination, the

light in us which can be seen in our face and in our eyes.

11th Rudra – The frictional fire, the heat in

creation and also in us.

The work of the Adityas is above the brow

centre, and from the brow centre downwards, up to
diaphragm and even below, is the work of the Rudras.
The Adityas are the light of awareness, unmanifest.
They are the Devas of consciousness. The Rudras bring
them down. That is why they are called the Devas of
force.

2c) Vasus – The Devas of Materialisation

The Vasus are the Devas who manifest. They
are eight in number. Without them, there is no
material manifestation. I am trying to find the
equivalent things in English, so that it becomes
universal. Otherwise, we could say it is all Hindu. If the
scriptures spoke, they spoke in Sanskrit, but even

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today, in India even no one speaks Sanskrit, just like
you don't speak Latin and Greek! There is a
degradation in language everywhere. That is why the
Hierarchy is now trying to bring in the universal
concepts in a universal language.
Every function of a Rudra was known by his
name, because the name was as per the function. Now
we are trying to see the function, so that we find our
own name which is universally applicable. These eight
Devas are the ones who bring down force to matter.
Consciousness in evolution becomes force, and force
causes formation of matter. Among those who
manifest, first Deva is the mind, second to sixth Devas
are the five elements, and seventh Deva is the flame
which we see. This is the flame, which is an aspect of
fire. Eighth Deva is the density of atoms. That is how
the cosmic permanent atom gains these eight qualities.
The Soul gains them through the vibration of
the Rudras and the formation with Vasus. The atom
gains its force due to the Devas called Rudras, and the
atom gains density at the material level. That is how
everything is seen in its three-fold manifestation from
the fourth state. The mind is the one, that can bring
things down. That is what Jesus said two thousand
years ago, “Let us bring it down, the Kingdom of God
upon Earth, to make this beautiful.”

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 The more light of Aditya and the more Rudras
you bring down to material, the more the material
shines forth like a jewel. The Hierarchy wish to see
that, this globe shines as it unfolds like a lotus. That is
why the idea is to work for the planet, like the
Hierarchy.
The Hierarchy is not only working for us, they
are working for the planet also. As the planet evolves,
the bodies that we get also get evolved. That is one of
the major works undertaken by Master CVV. Because
of these Devas, the properties of physics, the science of
physics, exist as the laws of matter. In matter, there is
force hidden. In the force, there is the consciousness
hidden. So, every atom is consciousness surrounded by
force and matter. This is the understanding of ancient
wisdom.

3. Pitris
The third category of Devas are the Pitris. Pitris
are Devas of germination and growth. They function
through our Moon, they cause procreation,
germination, growth. Their work is to cause growth at
the fauna and flora of this earth and also the growth in
us. These are the ones who conduct the growth of
volume relating to the matter, and water is their chief
agent. The Moon and its germinating capacity is also

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the basis for all procreation on the physical plane, so
that there is multiplicity of species due to the Pitris.
They are called Pitara in Sanskrit translated by the
orientalists as Pitris. Pitris are the Devas that give the
objectivity around us.

Sikhandins - Seven Rays

From out of the tenth Rudra, the visible light,
there are seven sub-categories of Rudras born. Those
are the seven rays of the Sun. They are called
Sikhandins. You find these names in “Treatise on
Cosmic Fire”. The Sun also is a product of Rudra. He
was too much of a light and too difficult to bear. That is
why there is the story in Purana. His wife Sunya was
unable to live with him, because Sun carried too much
light. She went back to her father and said, “I don't
want to live with him. It is too much light. Then the
father-in-law Viswakarma went to the Sun.
Viswakarma was the great architect of the universe. He
told the Sun that he should reduce the measure of light,
but the son-in-law did not agree. So, the father-in-law
shaved his son-in law like a barber and only left seven
hairs. Then Viswakarma said to his son-in-law, “Now
you look beautiful, and my daughter can live with
you.” Like that, the seers had their own share of fun in
presenting cosmology or cosmogenesis. You find the

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story in “Secret Doctrine”. These seven hairs are the
seven rays. The seven rays are called the seven
Sikhandins.
Like this, there are other categories of Devas.
But I have given to you the basic important Devas.
Through the Pitris, there come the Prajapatis, and due
to the movement of the Moon through 28
constellations the Manvantaras happen on the planet.
In just one stroke in “Bhagavad Gita” the Lord says,
“The Kumaras, the seven seers, the 14 Manus are my
splendour.” So, when it comes to Manvantaras, the
time cycles, which correspond to the 14 phases of
Moon, up to that point he just covered in one stanza.
But if you go into detail, these are the Devas relating to
it. And in relation to every Deva, He (the Lord) will be
in the centre. Among the Rudras, He is number 5.
Everywhere He takes to the central position and then
balances either side. That is how He goes on
mentioning in the Bhagavad Gita, many aspects of
manifestation of the Divine.
In this seminar we have covered up to some
point. You have to contemplate about it for a long
time. Please remember the two Aswins, twelve Adityas,
eleven Rudras, and the eight Vasus.
The Aswins belong to the supra cosmic plane.
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the solar plane and the Vasus belong to the planetary
plane. In every lower manifestation, the higher also is
there. In the planetary there is the solar, the cosmic and
the supra cosmic hidden. Likewise, in the supra cosmic
plane, the cosmic, the solar and the planetary are
hidden. Nothing comes out without its being there
from the beginning. As they unfold, many things come
out. In the seed, don't you have the whole plan of the
tree? A seer can see the whole tree in the seed with all its
detail; the number of branches, the form, the colour,
the fruits, which the tree will give. What is not there in
the seed will not manifest! So, in the supra cosmic all
the subsequent three exist. So, all is available at all
times. One is predominantly seen, and other things are
hidden.
In us also there is supra cosmic, cosmic, solar,
planetary and infernal. There is nothing that does not
exist in us. All that is in creation is also in us. Let this be
kept in mind and then let us try to work with these
Devas. When you think of the twelve Adityas, think of
the twelve planetary sun signs. When you think of the
eleven Rudras, think of pulsation, respiration,
expansion, contraction, movement, heat and light, at
the electrical functioning. Think of the Vasus,
whenever you think of density, the five elements, the
flame. When you think of the seven centers, think of

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the planets, whose synthesis is Sun. The seven centers
in the cosmos correspond to your centers in the body.
Whenever you get seven, you have to link up. When
the seven planes, the seven principles are available, the
seven seers are available. When it comes to seven, you
have to link up with that. The order is: Aswins – Adityas
– Rudras – Vasus – Pitris.
This is some basic knowledge, which we
should retain in us so that we can slowly work upon
that. There is a great detail relating to the whole thing,
which we can go through. It is very interesting, because
the whole thing is given through very nice stories. In
these stories, the story of Cosmogenesis is given and
also Anthropogenesis.
The significance of “Secret Doctrine” is that it
provides the clues, so that we can connect the story
well.

Thank you!

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 Prajapatis

There are nine Brahmas, the nine creators

coming out of the one creator, because nine are the
numbers; nine are the potentials. The right order is
Atri, Bhrigu, Angiras, Vasistha, Pulastya, Pulaha, Kratu,
Marichi and Adhvaryu. They come out of zero, and
they get into zero. These are the nine Seers, Rishis or
Prajapatis as they are given in the Puranas.
The names that are given here give the clue of
the functioning of the seven centers. There are seven
centers and seven Rishis out of these nine.
First let me speak of the seven centers which are
very familiar to us, from Sahasrara to Muladhara.

1. Sahasrara: Atri – Anasuya:

The Rishi relating to Sahasrara is Atri. Atri
means not three. Not three means the state where you
have not yet entered into the three qualities of creation.
You are beyond the triangular activity of creation. The
triangular activity of creation puts you to dynamism,
inertia, poise. We are always put to some proposal,

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trying to know how to work out that proposal, and
then working it out. We are getting a thought, then we
are thinking how to manifest that thought, and then
we keep working with it. When it is over, another
thought comes! From morning till evening, all our
activities are triangular activities. We wake up and
think of taking a shower. That is the proposal. Then
there is the knowledge of taking shower, and later the
act of taking shower. It does not end with it. Then we
have to dress up. It is again a triple activity. After you
dress up, you think of coffee or tea!
There is the thought, the knowledge and the
related action. When it is over, another thought, the
related knowledge and the action, and then again
followed by another thought, the related knowledge
and the action. Like that, from morning till evening,
we are in a wheel of triple activities until we get so tired
that we sleep. Sleep is a possibility for us to get out of
this triangular activity. There is no other way for the
mortals. We cannot remain without a thought, unless
we have accomplished certain higher states of Yoga.
Atri is the state where we are beyond the three.
That is the most blissful state. That is the Sahasrara
center. In Sahasrara we are beyond the three. That is
Atri. Atri, the Seer, has a wife. Wife means his quality.
She is called Anasuya, meaning; the absence of malice

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and jealousy. That is the quality of the one beyond. You
may try to hurt him, you may try to molest him, you
may try to insult him – no malice will come out of him,
because he is beyond the three qualities. He is
incapable of being affected by anything. The energy
beyond the triangle is pure consciousness, and his
quality is Anasuya.

2. Ajna: Bhrigu – Khyati:

Bhrigu is the second one. He is the center
within the triangle. That is our Ajna center. Atri is
beyond the triangle. He contains the triangle. Bhrigu is
within the triangle. The one within the triangle is also
poised. In him the three qualities agree. If you see the
symbol of an equilateral triangle with its center within
the triangle, it is one triangle. When the center is
formed and connected with the three qualities, it
becomes four triangles.
The triangle is connected inwardly to the
center. This center also has the equipoise, the state of
Yoga, because the three qualities agree in it. The earlier
center Sahasrara is beyond the three qualities. The Ajna
is the center of the triangle. Now you see the symbol we
have for Ganesha or for the Guru. It is a triangle with a
center which is circumscribed. The circumscribed part
is Atri. He is beyond the three qualities, and the three

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qualities emerge from him. The center of the triangle is
the son of Atri. The center is the son, the circumference
is the father. The father is beyond the three qualities.
The son is within the three, but the three agree. That is
the state of Ajna. Ajna is the Son of God. Sahasrara is
God himself. God means, the pure consciousness
before manifestation into the trinity or the three
qualities.
Bhrigu means effulgent light. It is a light that
shines forth like a flash. The whole creation is made
from the third eye, with the three qualities as basis. The
man with the third eye does the creational work. This is
the work of the third eye. It is called Bhrigu. Though he
is within triangle, he is not controlled by the triangle.
He has the cooperation of the triangle. Bhrigu has a
wife. She is called Khyati. Khyati means reputation.
Among the divine circles, you will be a reputed one.
When the third eye is open, you are a well-noted, well
respected, important person in the esoteric circles,
because the quality is one of effulgent, excellent
shining light. Khyati means to be very appreciated, very
popular, even respected by the three Logos.

3. Visuddhi: Angiras – Sraddha:

Angiras is the life of the system. Rasa means the
life fluid. Anga means the limbs.

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 He is the energy that permeates the whole
creational system as a fluid which gives experience of
splendor and also immortality. Further it gives the
energy to synthesize all. He is the one who holds the
system together. He is at the throat. He holds the
nectar of life. The nectar of life is at the throat. That is
why the throat center very important for those who
follow the path of discipleship. The throat center is
also the center where the clue to immortality is there.
The throat center is a center both for poison and for
nectar. Whether your body is filled with immortal
energy or with poison depends upon the functioning
of the throat.
All problems today for humanity are due to
mal-functioning of the throat which is mostly
incurable. The hyper-activity and the hypo-activity of
the thyroid gland is all due to manipulation of speech.
People who manipulate speech have problems with the
throat, because the speech is divine and anything that
you manipulate will manipulate you. It secretes more
poison as liquids and causes hormonal disturbances.
Today the hormonal disturbances are so high. All
problems of breast and the throat and the related
organs are due to inappropriate use of the throat.
When you make an appropriate use, you can bring
nectar. Through speech you can elevate people, and

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through speech you can also destroy people. By filthy,
critical speeches you can disturb people. By
harmonious, magnetic, radiant speeches you can
elevate people. Just a normal speech has such power.
Imagine, the occult utterances like mantras, seed
sounds, when they are appropriated pronounced, by
extremely purified throat they manifest things. The
ancients were magicians of sounds. There were black
magicians, and there were white magicians. Both of
them were working only with the throat center.
The Seer presiding over the throat center is
called Angiras. He can bring you immortality or death
according to your attitude towards your speech and
thought and utterances.
His wife is called Sraddha. Sraddha means, the
attentiveness, the sincerity, the devotion, and the
ability to be totally focused in a given situation in time
and place. That is Sraddha. People who have Sraddha
do not make mistakes.

4. Anahata: Vasistha – Arundati:

Vasishta, the great Rishi or Seer, means be-ness.
The first experience of be-ness is in the heart center.
Only then we feel the bliss of be-ness.
As a being, when we settle in the heart center,
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there is increased bliss and awareness relating to the be-
ness. Below Anahata that is in solar plexus, sacral and
Muladhara the human being believes in doing more
than in being. Being is the higher state, doing is the
secondary state. When once we are in be-ness, we are
capable of experiencing the creation in a better
manner. This is how the fourth center or the fourth
Seer is seen.
There are great many stories about the Seer of
be-ness who is called Vasishta. The scriptures are full of
his stories, how he remains unperturbed. In fact, all the
Seers have a great role to play in creation, and there are
elaborate stories relating to them which are again
symbolic of the seven sounds, seven rays, seven musical
notes, and the quality of the seven planes of existence.
The nature of Vasishta is called Arundati.
Arundati means unobstructed force of light. It is like
flashing forth the light of wisdom and love which is
unhindered light, love and wisdom. That is the nature
of the heart center which is conceived as the wife of
Vasishta.
All cosmic principles are personified in the
Puranas so that it is attractive for people to
comprehend through their functioning the basic
principles that they represent.

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5. Manipuraka: Pulastya – Havirbhu:
Pulastya means the brewing nature. Pulastya
relates to the solar plexus and to our mind. The mind
brews thought after thought, and it is never ending.
His nature or his wife is called Havirbhu. That
means, ever emerging thought patterns. Even when we
are silent, even in meditation, the thoughts keep
coming. The consciousness is the vehicles, on which
the existence is moving.
It is a challenge for the man of objectivity to
suspend such ever emerging thoughts and to enter into
the higher state of Vasishta. But when you need to work
in the three worlds and to work out the plan, you need
thoughts. Thought is the means for you to externalize
your being. If you do not have the thinking faculty, you
cannot objectify yourself, you cannot express yourself
into objectivity and you cannot perform any actions. It
is a process for externalizing.
The solar plexus is also seen as a center for
externalization, from which you get into objectivity.
Even from the womb of the mother, when you come
out, it is a process of getting into the external world
from the internal world, and through the solar plexus
you are connected.
The solar plexus is also the Libra principle to
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externalized. When you excessively externalize into
objectivity, you lose the way to get back into
subjectivity and into the consciousness. That is why in
Yoga, it is also recommended that you do not bulge
your stomach and the solar plexus. If you have too
much of a stomach, your diaphragm loses its tension.
You would breathe in many diseases, and the obesity
around the stomach is seen as a symbol of indulgence
into objectivity. So, it should be well regulated, and
such regulation is possible, when we regulate our
thoughts.
We should allow only thoughts of good-will
and thoughts relating to our duty, and through a
process of filtration eliminate other thoughts, so that
they do not manifest. Pulastya gives us the key of our
thought pattern, what are the thoughts that keep us in
tune with the divine plan. All strenuous spiritual
practices are basically to contain the solar plexus, find
the way back and get into the heart center.

6. Swadishtana: Pulaha – Gati:

This is the center where the thoughts
degenerate into just sensuous desires. That is where
you lose the direction. That is the reason why all
scriptures first speak of regulating the desires. Unless
you regulate the desires, you cannot get into the higher

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step of regulating the thoughts. Unless you regulate the
thoughts, you do not know how to be, and how to
experience yourself as a being.
His lady is called Gati. Gati means direction.
Depending upon your desire, you have your direction
in life. It is like the horse that leads you. Unless the
horse is well trained, it does not move in the desired
direction, and only desires will lead your life. For many
people fulfilment of desires is the only program for life.
Beyond desires, there are thoughts, beyond thoughts
there are constructive creative thoughts, where you
find meaningful life. So, we degenerate from
constructive thoughts, from creative thoughts to
routine thoughts, and from routine thoughts we
further degenerate into desires. A man who only
pursues sense objects to satiate his sensuous desires
reduces himself into a totally emotional being and gets
into all possible diseases.
Desire is essential for creational purposes,
desire in so far as it is in tune with the law. Desire which
has its basis in a creative or constructive thought is
essential. For example, to serve is also a desire, but
service is a thought of welfare. For any thought to
manifest it takes into the next step as a desire and
propels the senses into action, and the senses propel the
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 As per the quality of your desire you move in a
qualitative direction. If your desires are full of emotion,
then the direction is towards ending up in an
emotional, foggy, grey matter. When the very purpose
of desire is not understood, people get into indulgence.
There is also the extremity of killing the desire. If you
kill the desire, it is disastrous. All monastic systems
suggest killing the desire. The very concept of killing is
killing! That which you kill, kills you!
Suppression or killing out produces diseases,
such as cancer. By indulgence you produce diseases
such as aids and syphilis. So, don't kill out anything,
don't try to arrest anything. Regulate them! It is
wisdom to regulate your thoughts, and to regulate your
desires. Desire is like a mare. You see the wild mares
which were asked to be tamed in the story of Hercules.
If you kill a horse, you have not done anything. By
causing pain to the senses, by denying sense objects to
the senses, you don't achieve anything.
If you suppress anything natural, it springs
back with greater vengeance. That is why monastic
rigidities are not seen as wisdom. The eastern wisdom
never promoted monastic methods. They always
believed in regulation. That is where the Sanatana
Dharma, the ancient wisdom, differs even from the
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the Mara or the desire which is not acceptable to the
ancient Seers. Don't kill it, at the same time, don't
promote it. Work with it as much as it is required. If
you kill out the desire, you have no instinct to live. You
can neither kill the desire, nor can you promote it
unregulated. It is like a white mare which cannot be
killed. If you kill it, it is not useful to you. If you let it
untamed, it is not useful to you. So, you have to be
friendly to it, you have to speak to it, and slowly bring it
to a moderate structure.
Neither your mind nor your desire is your
enemy. Many religions speak of mind as being a great
obstruction for experiencing the truth, and the desire
being destructive. If you don't know how to work with
what is divine, you see some part as unnecessary and
you try to kill it. You only have to know how to work
with it. Pulaha is the Seer that presides over the
doctrine of desire. He gives us the key of how to desire,
what to desire, when to desire, where to desire, and
what not.

7. Muladhara: Kratu – Kriya:

Kratu means ritual. That is the seventh ray, the
magic of ceremonial order. All activity in the world
shall have to be carried out in a ritualistic manner,
because the whole creation is working in a very

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ritualistic pattern. The mineral, the plant, the animal,
the planets, the Devas, and the solar systems – they all
have a very rhythmical functioning. Only by
rhythmical functioning you can stay harmonious in
the creation. When you lose this rhythm, you are out of
the system. That is why the teachings that are now
coming from the Masters of the Himalayas greatly
stress upon a rhythmical living. Make your daily life a
ritual. That is the purpose of the seventh ray. The name
is Kratu.
A ritual has to be by way of daily living. That is
Kriya. The lady of Kratu is called Kriya.

The Poles
Above the Sahasrara, there is a vertex, a whirl-
pool that brings energies from the ambience into you.
That is called the north pole, the northern star. Below
the Muladhara also there is a vertex which collects all
the energies.
North pole brings in energies from higher
circles and distributes them into the system. It is so
with the human, it is also so with the planet. South pole
gathers, north pole distributes. In-between the two,
there is the apparent existence, from the invisibility to
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North Pole: Marichi – Kala
These two poles are also seen as two Seers. The
energy of north pole is called Marichi, and his quality is
seen as resplendent light. He is an ever shining Seer.
That is how it is said in the scriptures. Especially when
you read Mahabharata, many times men of wisdom,
and men of illumination are compared with Marichi.
Marichi is the highest illumination that one can reach,
because he is even beyond the seven Seers. He is a
representation of the original light in a system.
His wife is called Kala, the related illumination
and the consequent attraction.

South Pole: Adhvaryu – Santa:

The south pole energy is named as Adhvaryu,
the one that stays below. That is the foundation.
Actually, the foundation is up above. This is the
culmination. Temples are always built from above
downwards, not from below upwards, because creation
itself has come from subtle to gross. It is not building
from gross to subtle. Subtle energies of the cosmic
plane detail into solar plane, and from solar plane to
planetary plane, and from planetary plane to the
physical existence. That is how from subtle to gross
everything is built.
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behind the gross. So, the foundation is up above. In
India, temples are also built like that. Frequently, we
visit the temple at Simhachalam, just to see the
symbolism which is profound. The temple is built
from above downwards. There is no foundation
around the temple, and yet it stays stable because the
weight above keeps the columns below in tact.
When we build, we build from below upwards.
That is why even to rebuild the temple in us, we
straight away contemplate at Ajna and ensure that the
light of Gayatri descends into us. That is how the
prayer is given in Gayatri Mantra. The path of the Seers
is always from generals to particulars, from subtle to
gross, and from upwards to downwards.
That Adhvaryu is the one who contains all the
energies.

Saptha Rishis & Prajapatis:

These are the nine numbers. When they are
nine, they are called Prajapatis. When they are seven,
they are called the seven Seers. That is how we have to
understand. The nine numbers keep repeating in
different combinations to give different number
potentials. Whatever number you make, it has to be
within the nine numbers. The different combinations
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how these nine numbers form the basis for all potential
in the creation. Beyond nine, it is zero, and before one
it is zero. After nine, you again have one and zero.
Before one we have zero. From zero to zero, the whole
travel is!
When it is zero upwards, the upper zero is seen
as nil-ness. But it is not really nil. It is full. It is
potentially full, and the potential is not manifest. That
is how the vacuum is seen by the Seers as the Absolute
God. What the scientists see as vacuum is God
Absolute from the standpoint of a Seer. It is seeming
nothing, but it is everything. What we see a fullness, is
seen by the Seer as apparent fullness. We think this
fullness is real, but this fullness recedes into nilness.
That is how in the Veda there is a negative zero and a
positive zero. From negative zero to positive zero the
secrets are made available through the sun sign
Aquarius. If you understand Aquarius, you understand
the passage between nil-ness to fullness.
These are the nine Seers, their purpose, their
quality and their function.

Thank you!

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 TABLE - 1
Twelve Names of Adityas and Corresponding
Principles

S. No. ADITYA CORRESPONDENCE

1 VISHNU Aries

2 SAKRA Taurus

3 ARYAMA Gemini

4 DHATA Cancer

5 TWASTA Leo

6 PUSHA Virgo

7 VIVASWAN Libra

8 SAVITHA Scorpio

9 MITRA Saggittarius

10 VARUNA Capricorn

11 AMSU Aquarius

12 BHAGA Pisces
 TABLE - 2
Eleven Names of Rudras and Corresponding
Principles and Directions

S. No. RUDRA QUALITY DIRECTION

(Principle)

1 MANYU Will Above

2 MANU Behaviour East

3 MAHAKAL Combustion North

4 MAHAT Pause North-West

5 SIVA Canalization Centre

6 RITADHWAJ Sperm West

formation

7 URU Measure Below

8 RETOBHAV Fecundity South-East

9 KAAL Flash of North-East

intuition

10 VAMADEVA Joy South

11 DHRITA Continuity South-West

VRATA
 TABLE - 3
Eight Names of Vasus and Corresponding Principles

S. No. VASU QUALITY

(Principle)

1 Apas Liquid

2 Dhruva Pole

3 Soma Music and measures of time

4 Dhara Law which establishes the

properties of things

5 Anila Wind

6 Anala Fire

7 Pratyusha Time before sunrise; semi-

subjective slumber of the beings

8 Prabhasa dawn; objective consciousness of

beings
 TABLE - 4
The list of Saptha Rishis and Prajapatis

S. CENTER SEER QUALITY

No.

1 Sahasrara Atri Anasuya

2 Ajna Bhrigu Khyati

3 Visuddhi Angirasa Sraddha

4 Anahata Vasishta Arundati

5 Manipuraka Pulastya Havirbhu

6 Swadishtana Pulaha Gati

7 Muladhara Kratu Kriya

8 North Pole Marichi Kala

9 South Pole Adhvaryu Santa